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...bring the Free Democrats back into his coalition, gaunt Chancellor Konrad...
However Bonn's crisis of leadership is resolved, it is not likely to endanger West Germany's commitments to the European Common Market, NATO and the defense of the West. The tragedy is a domestic one, and the chief casualty is indomitable Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whose long and honorable service to his country deserved a finer conclusion: all the current bickering can only tarnish his place in German history. Many Germans wish that der Alte had gone ahead with his plan to shift to the sedate but less active office of the presidency in 1959. As a Bundestag...
...powerful publisher whose arrest touched off Konrad Adenauer's crisis still sits in jail. Der Spiegel's Rudolf Augstein, 39., has not yet been tried, or even formally charged with a crime. Under West Germany's law, a suspect can be held behind bars indefinitely while the police determine if there has been any serious wrongdoing...
...uproar in Bonn last week sounded little like the usual well-oiled functioning of the Federal Republic of Germany. All the factions in Bonn seemed to want weary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, to cross the Rhine to his rose gardens in Rhöndorf, and stay there. At week's end der Alte at last agreed to do so-in about a year...
Sure enough, the Socialists, after a parliamentary caucus, refused to join the grand coalition. After conferring with such close cronies as Minister Without Portfolio Heinrich Krone, Konrad Adenauer listened to the news with stony-faced indifference, and seemed bone-tired as he bowed to the inevitable. Next morning the deputies of his party were hastily assembled. Floor Leader Heinrich von Brentano announced that Adenauer had, in effect, agreed to one of the key Free Democratic conditions: he would step down as Chancellor next fall. Brentano then drew cheers by adding that Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard would be included...